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Google Cloud (over)Run: How a free trial experiment ended with a $72,000 bill overnight

Charlie Clark Silver badge

Re: VISA gift cards

Not really, they deployed untested code on a massively scalable system, which was what they wanted, and went to bed. While I think we've all learnt from leaving something running unattended, doing this with untested code is always asking for trouble.

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